Stephanie Lauricella is a second-year Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera. In the 2011-12 season, she appears as Flora/La traviata and Hansel/Hansel & Gretel. She also appears as a guest artist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Erie Philharmonic. In the 2010-2011 season she performed as Rosina/The Barber of Seville Student Matinee, the title role in Rinaldo and Sister Mathilde/Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Lauricella spent Summer 2010 at The Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering Kate Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly, Second Lady/The Magic Flute, and Estrella in the world premiere of Life is a Dream. Lauricella's other roles include Mrs. Segstrom/A Little Night Music, Angelina/La cenerentola, Lola/Cavalleria Rusticana, and Hansel/Hansel and Gretel. She has also performed in scene studies as Meg Page/Falstaff, Rosina/The Barber of Seville, and Romeo/I Capuleti e i Montecchi.

 

Lauricella is a past studio and apprentice artist at Sarasota Opera and at Central City Opera, where she was awarded the McGlone Award. She recently won the 2011 Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation Encouragement Award, MONC Great Lakes Region second place in 2011, and William Matheus Sullivan Award winner in 2010. She also studied in Italy at the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca. Lauricella holds a Master's of Music in vocal performance from Manhattan School of Music and is currently studying with Barbara Honn in New York City.